Об изучении городов Монгольской империи в Монголии и Забайкалье
On the Study of the Cities of the Mongol Empire in Mongolia and the Trans-Baikal Region

Author(s): Nikolay Nikolaevich Kradin
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Historical Geography, Middle Ages, 13th to 14th Centuries
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: Mongolia; Transbaikalia; epoch of the Mongol Empire; urban architecture; Karakorum; Khirkhirinsky hillfort
Summary/Abstract: The results of the research of hillforts on the territory of Mongolia and the Trans-Baikal (Zabaikalye) region dating back to the time of the Mongol Empire have shown that not all of them can be considered cities. Some of them are palace or manor complexes detached from the settlements. The paper focuses exclusively on sites with undoubted proto-urban or urban status. Among these, first of all, the Karakorum in Mongolia and the Khirkhirin hillfort in the Trans-Baikal region. The history of their research, the features of the sites’ location and layout of urban development, as well as general characteristics of the finds from the cultural layer are reviewed. On the whole, to-date, a large source base about the cities of the Mongol Empire in Mongolia and the Trans-Baikal region has been formed, which allows solving important general problems related to the history and culture of the medieval nomads of Eurasia.

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